Chapter Eleven: The Cultural Form of She Rui

  Lu Ke didn't even glance at Su Qi Ruo and Xi Rui Wen, slowly walking past the two of them with a calm expression, pretending to be just a passerby.

  "Alright, I'll let you off the hook for now when it comes to cooking eggs. If lunch isn't good, we'll settle the score then! Su Qi turned around and glared at Xi Ruiwen, "Xi Ruiwen, classmate, shouldn't you be giving me an explanation for what I just asked?"

  "Hmm, it's been a long time, I almost forgot!" Si Ruiwen looked up at the sky and thought hard.

  "Forgot?" Su Qi's tone turned colder by three degrees, "You're not even 18 yet and you're already a senior, you're practically a prodigy. You tell me you forgot? Can't you come up with a more convincing lie?"

  Looking at Su Qi's obviously suspicious and disbelieving gaze, Xi Ruiwen smiled awkwardly, "Just kidding, how could I forget?! But it's a very, very long story, you want to hear it too?"

  Su Qi stared at Xi Ruiwen, with an attitude of "you don't say I won't give up", Xi Ruiwen looked embarrassed and lowered his head, slightly red-faced, and slowly began to narrate.

  That was a sunny and clear morning, the sunlight filtered through the gaps in the leaves, leaving dappled shadows on the ground. I walked alone on the shaded path, feeling bored with school, thinking teachers were stupid. Although it was still a school day, I ran out of school and wandered aimlessly on the streets.

  As I walked, I happened to pass by an elementary school. It was probably around the time of their physical education class. There were about two or three hundred primary school students on the playground, each one foolishly waving their arms and doing exercises. It was really ugly. Originally, I had planned to take a glance and then leave, but unexpectedly, I caught sight of a little girl. It's strange, usually I couldn't remember anyone's face, but that little girl's face kept swirling in my mind, making me notice her. I leaned against the school railing to look at the little girl. The little girl looked very ordinary, but she had a pair of big, shining eyes that sparkled beautifully. I didn't know why I wanted to look at her, but I just stared foolishly, until the little girl left my line of sight. I was still looking in the direction where she disappeared.

  Later, every day I ran to that school and waited for the girl to appear. No matter how far she was from me, no matter how many people were around her, I could always spot her at a glance. Then I stared blankly at her, watching her for a whole week. My intuition told me that this little girl was special, and I couldn't let her disappear from my life...

  "Hey, hey, hey - I'm asking you to tell me how you left a mark on me, what's going on? Talk about your first love!" Su Qi had been patiently listening for half the day, but Shi Ruwen still hadn't gotten to the point, and she couldn't help but interrupt him.

  She Ruwen's eyes were misty, her face full of grievance, "They've been talking about you all along!"

  "Huh? You've been talking about me? Could it be... that I'm the little girl?" Strange, how come I didn't know someone was peeping at me when I was in school?

  "Really!" Si Ruiwen nodded excitedly, "It was at that time, once after school, someone brushed past you and bumped into you, leaving a mark on your body!"

  Su Qi thought hard for half a day, but I don't have any impression at all. "How old were you back then?"

  "Three years!" Shi Ruwen said with certainty.

  Three years old... and you already know so many things," Su Qi asked in pursuit.

  Seventeen!

  I'm seven years older than you, you were three and I was ten, at that time I was probably in fifth grade of elementary school! It's been a long time ago, no wonder I don't remember. "That's not right, my power hadn't awakened yet at that time, how could you have left a mark on me then?"

  "Oh dear, intuition is right, didn't expect it to be so effective!"

  "Not right, not right," Su Qi said sharply. "You just said you were in school back then, what school did you attend at the age of three? Are you deceiving me?"

  "Good grief, I was auditing classes at school when I was two years old. The demonic tribe's inheritance awakens at birth, and they can speak from the moment they're born. If it weren't for the school not accepting students that young, I would have already graduated with a Ph.D. by now!"

  "No wonder! Why did the demon tribe's inheritance awaken so early, and the god tribe's inheritance awaken so late? This is unfair! If I had awakened a few years earlier, wouldn't I have avoided meeting you all!"

  "No, the Divine Clan is also awakened at birth, but after awakening, they focus on hiding in order to protect their powers. It's only when you grow up that other parts of the inheritance will be revealed."

  Su Qi Ruo nodded slightly, "This is what they call hiding in plain sight. When will my powers fully awaken?"

  "This is unknown! Each ethnic group is different, like your long-standing divine tribe, what degree of awakening is considered complete awakening, no one knows." Shi Ruiwen said frankly, "However!" Shi Ruiwen's tone changed, pretending to be coquettish, "Everyone has said so much, shouldn't they also let the stinky scorpion say something about this mark..."

  "A heavy-bottomed pan smashed onto Qiwen's occipital bone, Su Qi breathed in a mouthful of cold air, unexpectedly Lu Ke launched such a brutal attack on Qiwen, the blow was too severe, she seemed to have just heard the sound of cracking bones."

  Lu Ke said nonchalantly, "The bottom of the pot was a bit uneven, now it's even." Then, she calmly turned around and left.

  Su Qi Ruo reacted in the first time, rushed up to hug Yang Ru Wen, and loudly advised, "Calm down, calm down, don't get angry, don't get angry! If you two fight, my house can't take it!"

  "Hahaha——hahaha——" Shi Ruwen burst out laughing like a madman, his laughter sounding as if it was coming from the depths of the earth, extremely eerie and terrifying. Su Qi's hand holding Shi Ruwen's hand trembled slightly, wondering if this guy had gone crazy?

  "I want to eat you!" Shui Ruien's voice changed tone, almost bursting Su Qiruo's eardrum. Su Qiruo's eyes went dark for a moment, and her first reaction was that Shui Ruien had transformed into a beast. Her hands were still on his body, but she felt an instant chill, smoothness, and slight dampness. She looked up to see what she was holding onto, which was as thick as a tree trunk, covered in dense scales, and emitting a dark gloss. Seeing this, Su Qiruo had already guessed something, but couldn't help looking up again, only to find that she was hugging a massive python the size of a train, and she was already inside the giant snake's coiled body.

  It turned out that Sheng Ruiwen was a snake! Su Qi's mind echoed with this thought before she fainted.